Through this Housing as a Pathway to Justice Landscape Analysis, focusing on the City of Atlanta, Georgia, Enterprise seeks a better understand the relationship between reentry and the unhoused, as reentry conditions prevent, or lead to, safe, stable, affordable housing. In Georgia, where nearly 40% of adults have a criminal legal history and 1 in 18 residents is under some form of correctional control, this connection is particularly acute. The city of Atlanta is just one illustration of how an individual’s housing instability and criminal legal involvement can combine to entrench cycles of poverty, trauma, and exclusion, especially among Black communities and very low-income households living below the poverty line. With support from the Georgia Power Foundation, Enterprise Community Partners Southeast launched the Housing as a Pathway to Justice (H2J) initiative to better understand how criminal legal and housing systems interact. The initiative would aim to also identify actionable, systems-level strategies that could stabilize and improve housing outcomes, reduce barriers to attaining housing, and advance economic mobility for those with criminal legal histories.
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